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Imagine you can join local activities nightlife, hiking or sports or fun trips like skiing or adventure in Iceland together with other like-minded people in your spare time. I may start with targeting single professionals who have the dating potential but not explicitly calling it dating. However, trust is a blocker when connecting strangers. i.e. hard to control quality of people on MeetUp. I want to verify people by organizations or schools. I wonder whether you guys feel more comfortable to hang out with either school alumni or company colleagues. #tech #social#relationships
Things like this have been tried a million times. It’s literally the most common idea people have, some variation of “an app to make friends”. People don’t want to make friends through an app.
How about with dating potential ?
Well before INS, there was flicker. Some ideas seem same but the actual product would be different
I’ve made plenty of friends through MeetUp and it serves exactly the same purpose. Never had any issues — idk if I’m lucky or creeps never happened to be in any of the groups I was in. So, how is this idea different than MeetUp?
Because it’s school or company focused as the OP said
Do you think it’d have the same effect if we started creating groups on LinkedIn to achieve the same results?
Yes trust is a blocker, and especially Trust to your new startup application
Ouch, that was rough lol
The only app that could replace Meta is TRUTH Social, because everyone registered there obviously has some level of trust in this social network
FB’s (Meta’s) main revenue stream is ads. FB is not successful because it has made it easy for the users (not customers) to hang out with each other on social media. It’s successful because it’s highly profitable. It’s highly profitable because its users are addicted to the platform, spending hours on it every day. In turn, its customers, the advertisers are willing to pay top dollar to target their ads to those users. If your target users are busy with “local activities nightlife, hiking or sports or fun trips like skiing or adventure in Iceland together with other like-minded people in your spare time”, how can you keep them engrossed/addicted in using your app? If your users are busy living in the real world, how will you be able to attract your customers to advertise on your platform? In fact, if you think deeper, those people you mentioned are not your target users. They are your content creators. These are your “producers”. Your target users are users who cannot actually do those things and are addicted to the platform to live through the lens of your content creators (producers). These are your “products”. Then the advertisers pay for access to your product. They are your “customers”. In a nutshell, your app’s job is to create a platform such that the producers can easily create a huge number of products to sell to a lot of customers. Separately, you mentioned trust being an issue. If you don’t sell your users’ data to your customers, how will your app make money to fund its operations? Even if it’s a non-profit, someone has to pay for all the storage and networking costs to serve the videos and photos uploaded by your content creators, users and advertisers.
My business model is not from ads. It's from service charge per match per activity plus app premium features.
I had the same idea wanted to work on it.
Let's work on it together PM me if interested
Isn't it similar to Slack / Discord to an extent?
The difference is that on my app you can select who you would like to hang out . You can think about it as Tinder + Uber + Airbnb experience
well good luck - you'll never know what would take off unless you build it and give it to users
Most popular social app will be the one that filters for prestige the best. Fb got started by only allowing Harvard students, then ivy's and so on. But now everyone is on it so meeting people on the platform no longer feels like you got into some exclusive club.
To some degrees yes, that's how The League is started by Stanford MBA. But the League sucks , it's just a prestigious version of Tinder.
There's been multiple social apps focused on interests as you described and none of them took off... not that easy to build a social platform
Imagine facebook becomes myspace